Join lead farmers and growers, researchers and tech developers to see how agtech is and can be applied on farm.

-How can managers and other decision makers get the information they need, process it, and decide what to do?

-What is the information they need?

-What tools help them make sense of it?

-What’s available (or coming) to make it as easy and reliable as possible to do the right thing, in the right place at the right time?

It’s not just computer stuff: a new quick Nitrate test promises rapid determination of available N while standing in the paddock – considerable help when deciding “do I put more now or can I hold off?” Combine that with smart crop zoning (that does involve computing) and maybe we can lift quality and reduce impacts.

2018 also sees the final year of our SFF Onions NZ project drawing to a close and there will be a focus on that. We think there are lessons that can apply to other crops too.

LandWISE has been awarded three significant new projects. We’ll be launching them at the LandWISE Conference on the 23 – 24th May 2018 in Havelock North.

The LandWISE Conference is recognised as a key learning and networking opportunity each year. Come and hear from and debate with overseas and local presenters, engage in practical demonstrations at the MicroFarm, and swap ideas and experiences with agtech leaders.

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Speakers

Crop physiologist Bruce Searle leads the Plant & Food team researching onion crop development and modelling. The collaboration with LandWISE has combined detailed plot scale work with whole paddock surveys to help Onions New Zealand growers understand the drivers of crop variability.

Keynote Dan Drost is a vegetable researcher and extension specialist from Utah State University. One of our invited international speakers, he is being bought to New Zealand in conjunction with Onions NZ and Plant and Food Research to discuss sustainable production systems.

Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) offer timely decision making around disease modelling, spray-application, irrigation control and frost-fighting. But if we are going to make decisions on the basis of networks of sensors, an important question is: ‘How good are the data?’

Matty co-founded Hectre, a company developing and offering orchard management software. From launch, Hectre has expanded to NZ and Australia and helped track over 50,000,000 apples in its first 10 weeks of operation.

Tasmanian farmer, Michael Nichols grows a wide range of crops. Michael is using NDVI crop images to improve and even up yields with variable rate spreader applications. Importantly he is verifying the results using yield data, data that show world leading wheat yields.

From Tasmania, through New Zealand to Cornell, Sarah's career focuses on vegetable disease management. She will describe leading techniques and technologies to help optimise control tools, and reducing the frequency of false positive or negative decisions.

Will “DroneAg” Bignell is a farmer and agricultural scientist who has worked across a number of disciplines ranging from a PhD in enhancing omega-3 in sheep meat to flying drones commercially. He uses high accuracy UAV photogrammetry for precision drainage design.